Looking Through the Ground

The white sun is soaking through the smog.

The light drips, gropes its way down

to my deep-down eyes that are resting

deep under the city looking up

seeing the city from below: streets, foundations—

like aerial photos of a city in war

the wrong way around—a mole photo:

silent squares in somber colors.

The decisions are taken there. No telling

bones of the dead from bones of the living.

The sunlight’s volume is turned up,

it floods into flight cabins and peapods.